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by ergocoder 1837 days ago
I want something small like Palm Phone, which is beautiful and refined.

But Palm Phone totally screws it up by marketing themselves as "companion phone" (your second mobile phone, why would I have 2 phones??) and the battery life is 5h (wtf is this??).

Other minimal phones focuses on calling, and guess what? 99% of my calls in the past few years were with spam.

Currently, there is absolutely no minimal small smart phone.

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I've got Unihertz Jelly 2. It is smaller than "Palm Palm" in width and heigth, but a bit thicker in depth, which is a good thing. Screen is a bit tad too small, but good enough for calls and other basic functions. Typing in portrait mode is tricky, at least.
I had an earlier version of one of these, when they had a ridiculous sale (it was like $40 or something).

It ran quite well. Most apps worked fine. It was a little slow, but it almost never had problems. Typing aside, I'm surprised how reasonable it was, I used it as my only phone for a few days and I really had no complaints.

I look at it. Its design looks bulky...

Small is good though.

What about the Palm phone? It's waterproof, 2oz, and has a feature that cuts power to the cell and wifi chips when the screen is turned off, so no calls or texts until you turn it back on. I love it as my daily driver for a year now.

https://palm.com/

If the battery life can stay the whole day, I will buy.

I think it's like 5h max